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Manhunt on for missing Colorado sex offender

DENVER — Police are looking for a violent, habitual sex offender who absconded from a community corrections facility in Denver.

Roger Hudson, a spokesman for the Colorado Department of Corrections, tells The Denver Post (http://bit.ly/1jZIhkS ) a warrant was requested for Eric E. Hartwell on Friday evening, 22 minutes after Hartwell's ankle monitor was apparently removed. Hartwell had been staying at a facility called Independence House.

+ caption Eric E. Hartwell (The Denver Post)

He has been convicted of raping a child, attempting indecent liberties and repeatedly failing to register as a sex offender.